CHAPTER II.
PALESTINE.
1824-1843.
In February, 1824, the Grand Seignior, influenced, as it would appear, by Rome, issued a proclamation to the Pashas throughout Western Asia, forbidding the distribution of the Christian Scriptures, and commanding those who had received copies to deliver them to the public authorities to be burnt.

The copies remaining in the hands of the distributors were to be sealed up till they could be sent back to Europe.

But few copies were obtained from the people, and the Turks seemed to take very little interest in the matter.
Messrs.

Fisk and King made their third and last visit to Jerusalem in the spring of 1825, arriving there on the 29th of March.

On their way, they had stopped a few weeks in Jaffa, where their labors gave rise to some very absurd reports, which yet appeared credible to the superstitious people.